Disney's new wireless wristbands: Convenient, or creepy?

9:26 AM,
Jan. 8, 2013

A young guest demonstrates Disney World's new wireless wristband technology.

Written by

Laura Bly
USA Today

In the latest and most high-profile example of travel companies using radio- frequency identification (RFID) technology to track visitors, Disney World parkgoers will soon be able to ditch paper tickets and credit cards in favor of wireless rubber wristbands that monitor where they go and what they spend in the Happiest Place on Earth.

According to the New York Times, the new "MyMagic+" program, rolling out over a still-to-be-determined time frame later this year, will let users of a new Web site and app called My Disney Experience preselect three FastPasses before they arrive at the ...